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Queen Anne Lace Shawl #3 Blocked

Submitted by TomH on Wed, 2008-10-29 16:10

It's true, Mario. After completing it last fall, I finally blocked my Queen Anne's Lace Shawl #3. I have to say it's a variegated whirlwind (nightmare) as I had expected. But it was a definite learning curve -- Stay with solid colored yarn or variegated yarn that has long bands of color when doing lace work. The shawl is fairly large: 80" in diameter. I knit it using Knit Picks "Memories" (yarn which they no longer carry) on US #9 (5.5 mm) circulars. If nothing else, it'll make a cozy afghan once it gets off the blocking board. By the way, you can see the tape I used to piece together the four panels of my blocking board showing through the shawl. Maybe I should switch to clear tape.

Tom, that looks beautiful. I'm with you on solid colours for lace, the design shows up better. I'm currently knitting a Swallowtail Shawl in an almost solid Chocolate colour and wish that I'd used solid colour.